{"id":396872,"date":"2026-04-13T21:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396872\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:36:13","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-aviva-fatigue-ticket-prices-or-style-of-play-whats-behind-the-empty-seats-at-leinster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396872\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: Aviva fatigue, ticket prices or style of play \u2013 what\u2019s behind the empty seats at Leinster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leinster head coach Leo Cullen. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sports3423210.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Leinster head coach Leo Cullen. Photo: Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Leinster attracted the second-highest attendance of the eight European knockout games at the weekend, behind Bordeaux Begles, who once again sold out the 32,930-capacity Stade Chaban-Delmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A crowd of 18,839 turned up to watch Leo Cullen\u2019s side dispose of Sale Sharks to book their place in the Champions Cup semi-final against Toulon, a game that will be Leinster\u2019s 23rd home knockout tie covering Europe and the URC since crowds returned in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster head coach Leo Cullen. Photo: Sportsfile Leinster attracted the second-highest attendance of the eight European knockout games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,11287,16766,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-396872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-leinster-rugby","11":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}